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| The relationship between increasing life expectancy and healthy life expectancy | | Author(s) | Jean-Marie Robine, Carol Jagger |
| Corporate Author | INSERM, University of Montpellier; University of Leicester; Oxford Institute of Ageing |
| Journal title | Ageing Horizons, 2006, no 3, Autumn/Winter 2005 |
| Publisher | Oxford Institute of Ageing, Oxford, Autumn/Winter 2005 |
| Pages | pp 14-21 |
| Source | Download only from: http:/www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/ageinghorizons |
| Keywords | Longevity ; Good Health ; Older men ; Older women ; Demography. |
| Annotation | The continued increase in life expectancy with no obvious deceleration, the proliferation of centenarians and appearance of supercentenarians (those aged 110+) leave us in no doubt that the belief that life expectancy was limited to 85 years is now untenable. Although we may ask how long the limits in life can be pushed, the crucial question is whether the extra years gained year on year in life expectancy are healthy years. This paper begins by reviewing what was historically believed to be the theoretical relationships between life expectancy and healthy life expectancy. The authors debate how current knowledge of mortality rates in the old and the oldest old, the trends in healthy life expectancy, and the gap between genders shed light on these theoretical models, discussing the fact that different models may exist in different cohorts of the same population. The paper closes with some speculations on how we might monitor the revolution of healthy life expectancy more closely, particularly in those countries still early on in the ageing transition. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060228203 A |
| Classmark | BGA: CD: BC: BD: S8 |
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